A day before the oath-taking of AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal as Delhi's next chief minister, television channels reported that his confidant Manish Sisodia would be handed charge of the PWD, urban development and education ministries.  

Kejriwal would keep the key portfolios of home, power and finance with him, a Press Trust of India report said.

Satyendra Jain, who had handled the health and industry portfolios in the previous AAP government, would retain the same portfolios, the reports said. In his earlier stint as the Delhi health minister, Jain was credited with ensuring free medicines in government-run hospitals.

Senior party leader and Political Affairs Committee (PAC) member Gopal Rai is tipped be to the next transport and labour minister.

Sandeep Kumar, a lawyer by profession, is likely to handle women and child welfare department and SC and ST welfare while Jitendra Tomar, another lawyer, will handle the law ministry.

Asim Ahmed Khan is likely to be given the charge of food and civil supplies and minority affairs ministries.

Rai, Kumar, Tomar and Khan are first-time legislators.

Exactly a year after he resigned as the Delhi CM, Kejriwal would assume the post again on Saturday at the Ramlila Maidan in front of tens of thousands of cheering supporters. The event is expected to begin at 11am and Sisodia is expected to take oath as the deputy chief minister along with five other ministers.

Officials said the ground, in the heart of Delhi, has been spruced up thoroughly for Kejriwal, 46, and his ministers to take the oath of office and secrecy - for a second time after December 2013.

With Kejriwal, who led the Aam Aadmi Party to a landslide win in the Delhi assembly election, urging people to attend the oath-taking in large numbers, the venue would have half a dozen entry gates.

Kejriwal took oath the last time at the same venue after his AAP won a stunning 28 seats in its maiden election. He then presided over a Congress-backed government but resigned after just 49 days, earning widespread criticism. The AAP then fought some 400 Lok Sabha seats but won just four.

Since then, Kejriwal rebuilt the AAP, which finally emerged a big winner in the February 7 Delhi election.

Source: HT